[Magdalen] Punxsutawney Phil.

[Grace Cangialosi]

I just noticed the subject line on this thread...talk about morphing!

Anyway, we usually process out to an Easter hymn, such as “The Strife Is O’er,” or often “Amazing Grace.” (I know, I know, but that hymn is kind of a regional preference, and the last verse is particularly apt.)

> On Feb 2, 2018, at 10:39 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> 
> Right at the end, after the committal. I walk out, speaking the canticle,
> with the urn (it’s nearly always an urn, though I’ve also done it
> processing behind a casket, with the cross leading and the family
> following). More effective than a hymn, IMO. Also serves the purpose, even
> if there’s not an interment, to get the family out of the church ahead of
> everyone else, for either a receiving line or a reception. Of course, music
> lovers will prefer a hymn, but I'd prefer the hymn directly after
> communion, just before the committal.
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 7:08 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I love the idea of using it at the end of a funeral--never thought of it!
>> Where, exactly, do you put it?
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> No, as to the candles.  Many churches now use plastic candles filled with
>>> oil (including our church -- and I don't care for them).  Lots of
>> churches
>>> also use paraffin, and I don't care for the smell. Nothing like the smell
>>> in a church of beeswax candles!  Better than incense, IMO.
>>> 
>>> The version of the Song of Simeon that's in our BCP is nicer than this, I
>>> think.  I love it, too, and always use it in my evening and/or nighttime
>>> prayers, as well as at the end of funerals.
>> 
> -- 
> Ann
> 
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
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